Spare-Flair
Supreme [H]ardness
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- Apr 4, 2003
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It's been awhile since I've been in the overclocking game. I lived with my Q6600 B3 @ 3.4GHz for what seems like 3-4 years now. Amazing, the longevity of that thing.
I've just upgraded and now and I am completely out of the loop of Sandy Bridge overclocking and I'm just relying on my ASUS P8Z68-V Pro to handle all the automatic turbo mode overclocking. I've my got 2500K stable @ 4.43GHz just out of the box without any significant tweaking just running the ASUS auto tune utility and I am running on the stock Intel cooler.
I am thinking about upgrading it to a Corsair H70 or H80 but for the addition $90, would I really get any appreciable gains from the auto-turbo overclocking of this CPU? What are people's usual expectations and results?
I also have a second 2500K on a separate system I built on an H67 board so I can't test overclocking on that computer. Would it be worth it to go through the effort of swapping both CPUs around to see which overclocks the best or are 2500K results pretty normal across the board?
I've just upgraded and now and I am completely out of the loop of Sandy Bridge overclocking and I'm just relying on my ASUS P8Z68-V Pro to handle all the automatic turbo mode overclocking. I've my got 2500K stable @ 4.43GHz just out of the box without any significant tweaking just running the ASUS auto tune utility and I am running on the stock Intel cooler.
I am thinking about upgrading it to a Corsair H70 or H80 but for the addition $90, would I really get any appreciable gains from the auto-turbo overclocking of this CPU? What are people's usual expectations and results?
I also have a second 2500K on a separate system I built on an H67 board so I can't test overclocking on that computer. Would it be worth it to go through the effort of swapping both CPUs around to see which overclocks the best or are 2500K results pretty normal across the board?